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August 6, 2011 — Saturday

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Events on August 6, 2011

American Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting And Exposition
Atomic Bomb Dropped on Hiroshima
Ball, Lucille (100th Birth Anniversary)
Battle of Bushy Run Reenactment
Blueberry Arts Festival
Bolivia: Independence Day
China: Double Seven Festival
Electrocution First Used to Carry Out Death Penalty
England: Cowes Week
Fancy Farm Picnic
First Woman Swims the English Channel (85th Anniversary)
Fleming, Alexander (Birth Date)
Hiroshima Day
Interstate Fair and Rodeo
Japan: Peace Festival
Judge Crater Disappearance
League of Nh Craftsmen Annual Craftsmen's Fair
Mitchum, Robert (Birth Date)
National Fresh Breath Day
National Mustard Day
O'connell, Daniel (Birth Date)
Olathe Sweet Corn Festival
Parsons, Louella (Birth Date)
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow (150th Birth Anniversary)
Space Milestone: Vostok 2 (USSR) (50th Anniversary)
Tall Timber Days Festival
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (Birth Date)
Voting Rights Act of 1965 Signed
Warhol, Andy (Birth Date)

Birthdays on August 6, 2011

Peter Bonerz, 73, actor (“The Bob Newhart Show,” “9 to 5”), director, born Portsmouth, NH, Aug 6, 1938.
Soleil Moon Frye, 35, actress (“Punky Brewster”), born Glendora, CA, Aug 6, 1976.
Romola Garai, 29, actress (I Capture the Castle, Atonement), born Hong Kong, Aug 6, 1982.
Melissa George, 35, actress (“Alias”), born Perth, Western Australia, Australia, Aug 6, 1976.
Dorian Harewood, 61, actor (The Falcon and the Snowman, Full Metal Jacket), born Dayton, OH, Aug 6, 1950.
Catherine Hicks, 60, actress (“7th Heaven,” Peggy Sue Got Married), born Scottsdale, AZ, Aug 6, 1951.
Shirley Ann Jackson, 65, first woman to chair US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, born Washington, DC, Aug 6, 1946.
David Robinson, 46, former basketball player, born Key West, FL, Aug 6, 1965.
M. Night Shyamalan, 41, filmmaker (Lady in the Water, Signs, The Sixth Sense), born Pondicherry, India, Aug 6, 1970.
Michelle Yeoh, 49, actress (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Tomorrow Never Dies), born Yang Zi Chong at Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, Aug 6, 1962.

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August 6 is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 147 days remaining until the end of the year.

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